Blog: Washoe school district did not turn down invitation to join lucrative tax plan in 1997

Records show it didn't do its homework

9:21 PM,
Aug. 19, 2013

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As we await Tuesday's public hearing the Washoe school-tax bill, we need to correct a key element in the debate.

In January, I was talking with Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani about a 1997 bill in the Legislature that allowed the Clark County School District to get a cut of the county's real-estate transfer tax and room tax to help pay for capital projects.Giunchigliani recalled that the Washoe County School District was asked if it wanted in on the ...